West Ham United boss Manuel Pellegrini believes his side must play a "complete game" if they are to beat Huddersfield Town this weekend.

The Terriers face the Hammers at the John Smith's Stadium on Saturday (3pm kick off) with both sides looking to bring unwanted records to an end in West Yorkshire.

Town have not won back-to-back Premier League matches since February last year, whereas the Irons' run without consecutive victories stretches back to January 2017.

It has been a tough start to the season for David Wagner's side, who claimed a first win of the season over Fulham on Monday night, pulling themselves off the foot of the Premier League table and behind 17th-placed Newcastle United on goal difference alone.

But despite Town's shaky start, Pellegrini has told his players not to get complacent as the Terriers will put up a fight in front of their home crowd.

He told Football.London: "It's important because we need to recover points. Our start of the season was so bad that we need to recover points. If we think that we are going to do it just because we are playing Huddersfield who are not having such a good season then I think we will be making a big mistake.

"They fight for every ball, they just won their first game, they only lost to Liverpool 1-0 so I think we need to play a complete game in defending and attacking if we want to win back to back games."

The former Manchester City boss added: "Our target, doesn't matter against who we play, is to recover the points we lost at the beginning.

"We now have 24 more points to play for before we finish the first round (2018), we will try to do as best as we can in every game to add the points we need to be in a more comfortable positions."

West Ham will be without the injured Andriy Yarmolenko, Jack Wilshere, Manuel Lanzini, Winston Reid, Andy Carroll and Carlos Sanchez for the weekend clash, while midfielder Mark Noble is suspended.

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Pellegrini confirmed that no significant injuries were picked up in their last match however, despite Pedro Obiang receiving treatment after a dangerous tackle made by Ben Mee.

On the team news following the 4-2 win over Burnley, the manager said: "There is no update on injury news after that game. Pedro Obiang is fit, there was not one player that had any problem in that game."